October Playlist
November 14, 2008
Here is the playlist for October 2008 determined heuristically.
1. My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
2. Coheed and Cambria – The Willing Well I: Fuel For The Feeding End
3. Chronic Future – New York, NY
4. Gnarls Barkley – Whatever
5. Interpol – Narc
6. Death Cab For Cutie – All Is Full Of Love
7. Men At Work – It’s A Mistake
8. Blue Checkered Record Player – Rocketship
9. Cary Brothers – Something
10. Elliott Smith – No Name #3
11. Iron & Wine and Calexico – Dead Man’s Will
Woops.. updated the playlist
October 6, 2007
Sorry it took so long to get the playlist from 10-04 up and running, I’ve been having some computer quarrels, but now it’s up and ready to look at, so check it out!In the meantime I’ve decided to start doing something fun! I want to start putting guess-the-band pictures on here every week. How it works is I put up a picture which you have to guess the name of the band. So for example, if I put a letter “A” up and it looks metallic, then the band is metallica. Get it? Of course I wouldn’t put a stupid band like that up but it’s just an easy idea I could think of.
Here is the Guess-The-Band picture for this week
Hint: Local band [Denver-area]
Show title prose poem(s)
September 5, 2007
Here is a prose poem constructed from the different titles we gave our show weekly last semester
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A collection of one line prose poems of the form:
the indie _____ but _____, or…
with two exceptions, (that when put together form a moderately cohesive entity)
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the indie apple does not fall far from the pop tree but the orchard stretches for miles, or…
the indie ship may sail far from port but it will always find land, or…
the indie phone makes hundreds of calls daily but only a few are ever received, or…
the indie press prints thousands of papers but too few get read, or…
the indie sky is not the monochromatic blue of the weatherless midday but the multi-hued, layered sky of evening after a storm, or…
the indie forest is all bamboo and I am a hungry Giant Panda, or…
the indie couch is hard to find but is so comfortable that you wont want to get up, or…
the line to the indie bathroom is long and winding but the toilets are always clean and pristine, or…
the indie city is full of lights but you can still see all the stars in the night sky, or…
the indie climate is one of varied seasons and weather but it is always beautiful, or…
the indie pen may write many letters but it will never run out of ink, or…
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quite nice don’t you think? This may not display in the proper format so to see it as it was intended click HERE and make sure that one statement is viewed per line on your screen.
/mike
Emergency Happy Music Part[y] Two!
August 15, 2007
For those of you who know me, I’ve already made an Emergency Happy Music playlist, which is to be used incase of sad emergencies. It worked so well I decided to continue the trend, so without further ado, Emergency Happy Music II
01. 
The Boy Least Likely To – Fur Soft As Fur
02. 
Architecture in Helsinki – Frenchy I’m Faking
03. 
The Fiery Furnaces – Straight Street
04. 
The New Pornographers – Three Or Four
05. 
Aquabats – Super Rad
06. 
The Decemberists – Billy Liar
07. 
Islands – Humans
08. 
Badly Drawn Boy – Year of the Rat
09. 
Sufjan Stevens – Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for your Stepmother!
10. 
Nathan & Stephen – Stand Back Up
11. 
Of Montreal – Labrynthian Pomp
12. 
Mates Of State – Punchlines
13. 
Belle & Sebastian – Step Into My Office, Baby
The Bright Eyes concert in a nut-shell.
April 30, 2007
From time to time, we question our goals in life. We think about how we want to be known by others, how we want to be recognized and most importantly: how we want to be remembered. If you’ve ever wanted to be a relationship-challenged singer/songwriter in his late 20’s, being chased by a legion of lonely depressed sexually confused high school girls, than perhaps you’d want to start a band called Bright Eyes. Ah, but alas, Conor Oberst seems to have beaten all of us to that.
The grand paradox of Bright Eyes is if you listen to the lyrics of his songs, he sings a lot about relationships simply not working out (or basically him not giving a damn about it), yet he still has a “backstage-betty” lineup that puts the lines at Disneyland to shame. A girl from my old high school has been quoted on saying she wants to marry him so she can “change” him. The girls at the Buell Theatre on Saturday night were definitely worth rolling my eyes a few times. The amount of glamorous prom no-shows professing their undying love for the forever-21 lead singer was simply grandiose.
“I have found that the complexities of life won’t shine into the caverns of our minds until you have a 15-year old flash you.” -Conor Oberst, 2007.
The concert was a Cassadaga-fest, which is understandable because of the release of this album. On the wall behind them there was a projected screen of someone doing creative and fun things to the music, including pouring food coloring into a glass of water … and … playing with an etch-a-sketch… and …. twirling a flower around. Boy oh boy it was so creative that I almost forgot I was at a concert and not a high school A/V room.
This etch-a-sketch drawing really personifies my inner demons so clearly. ROCK ON, ART!
Visual vomit aside, the instrumental assembly was nice. Two cellists, two flutes, two violins, two drummers, two keyboardists, and two Conors. Only, they had one Conor on stage at a time because two Conors would make the female population in the auditorium literally explode into a swirly catastrophic vortex of estrogen.
The merchandise was kind of lame, $30 for a t-shirt. But, only $10 for a cd or vinyl.
Price it costs to print a t-shirt: $1
Price it costs to create a cd: $2
Knowing that you turned a Bright Eyes concert review into a Mastercard knock-off: Priceless.
Keep on keeping on
-Chris
